Does r9 magic arrow do triple the damage?

[sakraycore]

Or does it just have slightly bigger AoE?

Please confirm/deny.

[Phoenix~Lament]

I tested out on Gnoll Chieftain how many MA for burning 1 lifebar :
. 24 with fineGemstone
. 27 with regularGemstone

Considering Crits are random, we can say the damage are equal . The diff is that fineGemstone has an awesome AoE .

Does that satisfy you? From the other fine magic arrow gem thread.

[Andy-Buddy]

Does that satisfy you? From the other fine magic arrow gem thread.

This is irrelevant to the question that OP poses.

Rank 9 has 3 bolts come out, instead of one, at a time.

OP is asking if these three bolts means 3x the damage, or a larger AoE.

[Andy-Buddy]

Actually it's implied in the post that it does not do 3x the damage, only a larger AoE.

Phoenix's post only refers to a "Fine Magic Arrow Gem." His post also in no way says anything about rank 9 Magic Arrow. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[Science]

Phoenix's post only refers to a "Fine Magic Arrow Gem." His post also in no way says anything about rank 9 Magic Arrow. Please correct me if I am wrong.

R9 Arrow is required for Fine Magic Arrow gem, which is the only way to fire 3 arrows at once, which is the only reason the OP's post came up in the first place.

[Andy-Buddy]

Thank you for the correction.

[TixTax]

FineGemstone (3bolts) requires r9 MagicArrow .
At r9 you can still use RegularGemstone (1bolt) .

Damage are nearly equal .

[Phoenix~Lament]

Well, my logic was that either Rank 9 Magic Arrow has triple damage or triple aoe.

I quoted a post that confirmed it was triple aoe, and probably not both.

[sakraycore]

so it can in theory hurt 3 enemies at once?

[Skirt]

It's no theory; it happens. Try it out in a spider mob.